COUNCIL — JULY 1905 
Sitting of Friday July 21st at 11 a. m. 
President Dr. W. Herwie in the chair. 
Present, all the Members and Experts of the list on p. 2; 
as guests, the Members of the Committees. 
The chair was taken at 11 a. m. by the President, Dr. Herwie, who wel- 
comed all present and moved to send by telegram a vote of thanks and expressions 
of homage to H. M. the King of Denmark. (Applause) 
He then referred eulogistically to the memory of their late colleague Prof. 
P. T. Curve, Upsala. 
Coming to Head 1 of the Agenda the President stated, that in addition to 
the four countries — Germany, Holland, Norway and Sweden — which engaged 
themselves from the beginning to participate during five years, Denmark, Finland 
and Russia had also decided by this time to continue the work until July 1907. 
A similar decision had not as yet been taken by Great Britain, but might be 
said with certainty to be imminent. Belgium has joined provisionally for the 
period to July 21, 1906 but will in all probability participate during the last year 
also. The President congratulated the meeting on the success attained, which 
secured to the members two more years of cooperation, at the same time pointing 
out, that the International Council owed great thanks to the Danish Government, 
especially to the Minister for Foreign Affairs for his cooperation to secure this 
satisfactory result. (Applause) 
The President then informed the members, that a hydrographical section had 
been instituted by the Bureau on the proposal of Prof. O. Krimmen seconded by 
Prof. ©. Perrersson, Prof. Fr. Nansen and Docent M. Knupsen. In the course of 
the week this section had held several meetings, and subjected the hydrographical 
questions to discussion and provisional settlement. Under Head 6 of the day’s 
Agenda Prof. Orro Kriimmen would report on its proceedings. Further, the mem- 
bers and experts interested in the question of fishery-statistics, in so far as these 
are of importance from an international point of view, had formed a special 
